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Legislation Seeks to Restore Community College Funding in California
Legislation Seeks to Restore Community College Funding in CaliforniaWALNUT, Calif.California Assemblyman Robert Pacheco, R-Walnut, pledged to amend legislation to restore some of the $126 million in community college funding cuts recently made by Gov. Gray Davis.“I think it’s time community colleges stand up for what has rightfully been earned,” says Pacheco.Pacheco announced to a crowd […]
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Unlikely Partners in Philanthropy
Unlikely Partners in Philanthropy Traditionally White colleges and universities increasingly look to minority communities for institutional support.By Ronald RoachFairfax, Va.George Mason University, located just outside of Washington, D.C., is known as the academic home of some of the most influential conservative scholars in the nation, most notably in economics and in law. Among its board […]
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What’s Happening to the PUBLIC in Public Education?
What’s Happening to the PUBLIC in Public Education?Students feel the effects of tuition hikes as legislative tax-cutting sprees send the nation’s public colleges and universities jockeying for funding. By Page Boinest MeltonForget unemployment, income and housing starts as leading economic indicators. America’s public colleges and universities — among the first to feel the effects of […]
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VSU President Offers Olive Branch to Faculty
VSU President Offers Olive Branch to Faculty Gesture follows dissolution of faculty councilBy Kendra HamiltonPETERSBURG, Va. In his “State of the University” address, Eddie N. Moore Jr., president of Virginia State University, attempted to bridge the chasm that’s developed between the university’s administration and faculty since the university’s board of visitors voted in early August […]
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University of Maryland Honors Civil Rights Activist
University of Maryland Honors Civil Rights Activist For Seven-Decade StruggleBALTIMOREDorothy Height’s fight for civil rights and gender equity began with anti-lynching protests in New York in the 1930s. The Richmond, Va., native worked on voter registration drives in the South during the 1950s and was at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s side when he […]
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Louis Sullivan to Step Down as President of Morehouse School of Medicine
Louis Sullivan to Step Down as President of Morehouse School of MedicineATLANTAAfter more than two decades at the helm of the Morehouse School of Medicine, Dr. Louis W. Sullivan will turn over the presidency to Dr. James R. Gavin III in June of next year. Gavin is currently senior scientific officer of the Howard Hughes […]
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Fired USF Basketball Coach Should Be Reinstated, Judge Says
Fired USF Basketball Coach Should Be Reinstated, Judge SaysTAMPA, Fla. A judge recently recommended that the fired coach of the University of South Florida’s women’s basketball team be reinstated, saying the university did not prove she mistreated the team’s Black players. Jerry Ann Winters should receive back pay for the months she has been out […]
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HBCU Presidents Stress Need for Greater Financial Help
HBCU Presidents Stress Need for Greater Financial HelpCongressional hearing draws 300 people to Wilberforce University in Ohio By Mark FisherWILBERFORCE, OhioHistorically Black colleges and universities need greater federal financial help to make college affordable for students and to install the technology necessary to best prepare those students, four college presidents told congressional leaders last month. […]
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Professional Appointments
Professional AppointmentsDr. Jess Carreon was recently selected as the next president of Portland Community College in Portland, Ore. Previously, Carreon was the superintendent and president of the Rio Hondo Community College District in Whittier, Calif. Carreon earned a bachelor’s from San Diego State University, a master’s from the University of California at Irvine and a […]
Faculty & Staff
Breathing New Life into Meharry
Breathing New Life into MeharryThe 125-year-old historically Black medical school was on the brink of closing down, but through new leadership and partnerships, the school is financially healthy, and its students’ board scores are the highest in the school’s history. By David Hefner NASHVILLE, Tenn.On a late July afternoon in 1994, Dr. John E. Maupin […]
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Commission Proposes Limits on College Sports
Commission Proposes Limits on College Sports WASHINGTONColleges with low graduation rates among athletes should be banned from postseason play, a commission said last month in chiding universities for putting too much emphasis on winning. Under the plan proposed by the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, player uniforms would be stripped of corporate logos, and a […]
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Accrediting Agency Acts Against Grambling State University
Accrediting Agency Acts Against Grambling State UniversityGRAMBLING, La.The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has taken punitive action against Grambling State University.At its summer meeting late last month in Portsmouth, Va., the SACS denied its reaffirmation of Grambling State University’s 10-year reaccreditation and placed the school on warning. “This is a very significant move by […]
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